in the final analysis

Idioms  

1. Also, in the last analysis. When all things are considered. For example, In the final analysis we must find ways to improve our sales, or I can, in the last analysis, talk only about my own work. This expression was at first put as in the ultimate analysis. [Late 1700s]

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Example Sentences

"I don't want to be remembered in the final analysis for having won Wimbledon... I take applause for having done it, but it's not the most important thing in my life - not even close," he said in a BBC interview a year before his death in 1993.

From BBC

There were nine studies with 480,479 participants in the final analysis.

From Science Daily

“In the final analysis, clubs will decide what they’re comfortable with to a certain extent and what they’re not, and in this case the Blackhawks decided it was best if he was away from the team.”

From Seattle Times

“Their kit is merely the prototype for a kind of bioinformatics product that companies will package and market to us in the years to come …. 23andMe is, in the final analysis, a marketer of data.”

From Salon

Dunne’s son Robert said: “Overall, in the final analysis, he was a good and decent man.”

From Seattle Times